U-M Climate & Space Students Publish Research as Lead Author

Five students were honored for their achievement of publishing research in an academic journal as lead author for the first time, in a ceremony held on Thursday, October 26 at the U-M Department of Climate and Space.

Four graduate students who recently published their first peer-reviewed paper as lead author gave presentations on their research, and a fifth student joined the panel discussion that followed, sharing insight into the process. The event was hosted by Professor Chris Ruf, and each student received a certificate honoring their accomplishments from Acting Department Chair and Professor Allison Steiner.

The students honored included:

Ananyo Bhattacharya
Faculty Advisor: Dr. Cheng Li
“Highly Depleted Alkali Metals in Jupiter’s Deep Atmosphere.” Ananyo Bhattacharya et al (2023), Highly Depleted Alkali Metals in Jupiter’s Deep Atmosphere, ApJL 952 L27, doi: 10.3847/2041-8213/ace115.

Yingxiao Zhang
Faculty Advisor: Dr. Allison Steiner
“Projected climate-driven changes in pollen emission season length and magnitude over the continental United States.” Zhang, Yingxiao and A.L. Steiner (2022), Projected climate-driven changes in pollen emission season length and magnitude over the continental United States, Nature Communications, doi: 10.1038/s41467-022-28764-0.

Alexander Lojko
Faculty Advisor: Dr. Christiane Jablonowski
“The Remote Role of North-American Mesoscale Convective Systems on the Forecast of a Rossby Wave Packet: A Multi-Model Ensemble Case-study.” Lojko, A., A. Payne, and C. Jablonowski (2022), The Remote Role of North-American Mesoscale Convective Systems on the Forecast of a Rossby Wave Packet: A Multi-Model Ensemble Case-study, Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres, 127, e2022JD037171. https://doi.org/10.1029/2022JD037171.

Garrett Limon
Faculty Advisor: Dr. Christiane Jablonowski
“Probing the Skill of Random Forest Emulators for Physical Parameterizations via a Hierarchy of Simple CAM6 Configurations.” Limon, G. and C. Jablonowski (2023), Probing the Skill of Random Forest Emulators for Physical Parameterizations via a Hierarchy of Simple CAM6 Configurations, J. Adv. Model. Earth Syst., 15, e2022MS003395, https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/2022MS003395?af=R. 

Alex Hoffmann (Published 2022)
Faculty Advisor: Dr. Mark Moldwin
“Separation of Spacecraft Noise From Geomagnetic Field Observations Through Density-Based Cluster Analysis and Compressive Sensing.” Hoffmann, A. and M. Moldwin (2022), Separation of Spacecraft Noise From Geomagnetic Field Observations Through Density-Based Cluster Analysis and Compressive Sensing, JGR Space Physics, 127, e2022JA030757, https://doi.org/10.1029/2022JA030757.

Congratulations to our students!